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FACTOR RETURN [11 records]

Record 1 2017-01-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Production (Economics)
  • Public Sector Budgeting
  • National Accounting
DEF

Income derived directly from the current production of goods and services. There are normally four main categories: rent; wages and salaries; interest and profits.

OBS

Net national product is also definable, from a second viewpoint, as the total of factor earnings (wages, interest, rents, and accruing profits) that are the costs of production of society’s final goods.

Key term(s)
  • factor earning
  • factor payments
  • factor rewards

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production (Économie)
  • Budget des collectivités publiques
  • Comptabilité nationale
DEF

Rémunération des salariés par les producteurs, impôts liés à la production, excédent brut d'exploitation et revenu mixte.

OBS

Le produit intérieur net est souvent évalué aux revenus des facteurs.

OBS

rémunération des facteurs : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’économie» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Key term(s)
  • rémunération de facteur
  • revenu de facteur

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Producción (Economía)
  • Presupuestación del sector público
  • Contabilidad nacional
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Record 2 2016-03-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Planning
  • Pricing Theory
  • Production (Economics)
DEF

The return for the use of a factor of production in excess of the minimum required to bring forth the service of the factor. The surplus remaining to a project beneficiary after he receives the rewards necessary to attract physical inputs, labor, entrepreneurship, and the willingness to bear risk.

CONT

The amount that a factor (of production) must earn in its present use to prevent it from transferring to another use is called its transfer earnings. Any excess over this amount is called its economic rent.

OBS

This concept was originally developed to apply to land but is now applied to all factors of production.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification économique
  • Théorie des prix
  • Production (Économie)
DEF

Surplus de revenu qui échoit au producteur d'un facteur par rapport au montant minimal dont il a besoin pour maintenir le facteur de production dans son état actuel et l'offrir sur le marché.

OBS

Au sens économique, la rente est à l'origine le revenu foncier [...] la rente à tous les surplus non gagnés dont peuvent bénéficier les sujets économiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Planificación económica
  • Teoría de fijación de precios
  • Producción (Economía)
DEF

El rendimiento por la utilización de un factor de producción en exceso del mínimo necesario para producir el servicio del factor. Es el excedente que le queda al beneficiario de un proyecto después de que recibe las recompensas necesarias para atraer insumos físicos, mano de obra, capacidad empresarial y la disposición a correr riesgos.

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Record 3 2015-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cardiovascular System
CONT

Lazarus syndrome or autoresuscitation after failed cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the spontaneous return of circulation after failed attempts at resuscitation.... a chief factor... is the buildup of pressure in the chest as a result of cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR). The relaxation of pressure after resuscitation efforts have ended is thought to allow the heart to expand, triggering the heart's electrical impulses and restarting the heartbeat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système cardio-vasculaire
DEF

Retour spontané [de la] circulation [sanguine] après arrêt [ou] abstention des mesures de réanimation.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Accounting
  • Public Sector Budgeting
CONT

Requited payments. Transactions involving payment for a quid pro quo, that is something received in return, whether goods, services, use or ownership of property, or factor services.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité
  • Budget des collectivités publiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Contabilidad
  • Presupuestación del sector público
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Record 5 2004-09-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Productivity and Profitability
  • Production (Economics)
DEF

A factor of production, such as a machine, which earns economic rent in the short run only.

CONT

The return to any factor in temporarily fixed supply is sometimes called a "quasi rent"-quasi because in the long run, its supply need not be fixed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Productivité et rentabilité
  • Production (Économie)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Productividad y rentabilidad
  • Producción (Economía)
CONT

El concepto de renta económica está íntimamente ligado al de cuasi-renta, derivando esta última del hecho constatado de que la oferta de un producto no experimenta cambios - o por lo menos cambios importantes -, cuando su precio se modifica sólo por un brevísimo espacio de tiempo.

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Record 6 1988-07-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Real Estate
DEF

A valuation principle which states that when successive increments of one or more factors of production are added to fixed amounts of the other factors there is a resulting enhancement of income(in dollars, benefits, or amenities), initially at an increasing rate to a point of maximum return and then decreasing until eventually the increment to value becomes increasingly less than the value of the added factor(or factors).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Immobilier

Spanish

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Record 7 1987-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
  • Commercial Utilization (Oil and Natural Gas)
DEF

A rate of return including as a factor an incentive to engage in specified activities.

CONT

The IROR is decreased as the Cost Performance Ratio (the ratio of deflated actual capital costs to projected capital costs) is increased in order to provide an incentive for project sponsors to keep construction costs as low as possible.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
  • Exploitation commerciale (Pétrole et gaz naturel)

Spanish

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Record 8 1981-01-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Corporate Economics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Économie de l'entreprise

Spanish

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Record 9 1981-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Production (Economics)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production (Économie)

Spanish

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Record 10 1980-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Production (Economics)
OBS

(...) under static conditions free of uncertainty and innovational change, competitive profits (other than implicit factor returns and wages of management) would tend to zero (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production (Économie)

Spanish

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Record 11 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Accounting
  • Taxation
  • Taxation Law
OBS

D. a constant factor applicable to total return for arriving at income tax payable in engineering studies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité
  • Fiscalité
  • Droit fiscal

Spanish

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